The development occurs in a series of milestones, each one improving steadily upon the last. Currently, only Milestone 1 (version 0.1.3) has been released; however, there is a preview release for Milestone 2, Milestone 1.9 (version 0.3).

In 2008, SuperTux was used as a game for children by school district #73 in British Columbia, which had decided to transition to free and open source software.[2] The game was scheduled to be included in the release of the EVO Smart Console as of April 2009.[3]

Punto Informatico described the atmosphere of the game as pleasant and praised the free availability of the game.[4] Free Gamer criticized it for a lack of originality and a sharp variance in level difficulty.[5]